Gross Facts About Our Polluted Planet

80% of Earth's creatures call the oceans their home.

If you could lift up the sea like a carpet what would you see?

Click here for some gross facts

Greenpeace.org.uk/oceans

The most frightening picture you will ever see?

'This is the most frightening picture you will ever see. The information expressed visually here can be summed up in three words: change or die...'


So says this article in The Guardian showing NASA's startling new images of the meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet. 


It's your world, your future. So grab hold of it. Do we keep denying the evidence? Or do we act? And if so, how?

NASA image: normal ice melt

NASA image: current ice melt

Too Little Rain, Too Much Sea for Tuvalu.

Like the tiny island nation of Kiribati in the South Pacific, Tuvalu is reportedly suffering a double punch from climate change - too little water and far too much.

A rainwater drought and rising seas

Would you curb your CO2 ommissions to help Tuvalu?

CENTURY OF STORM (continued)

We need those cars of the future right now. http://gu.com/p/32kak

Thailand floods, October 2011

The Car of the Future!

It can travel on land, sand, ice and water....

For the students in the schools I visited last week - here are some links about how the world is changing (click on the paragraphs below).

We are living through the greatest period of change the world has ever known.

The Polar Eskimos have always lived in harmony with nature, taking from the sea and land what they need to survive. But global warming has upset the equilibrium and left the future uncertain.

Scientists say Greenland is losing ice mass at an increasing rate - photos of the break-up of the Petermann Glacier.

For the first time in living memory, the sun rose above the horizon two days early – a phenomenon that has baffled Greenlanders and scientists. Some believe that the most plausible explanation is global warming. It is thought that the Greenland ice sheet and the glaciers surrounding the town are melting so rapidly that it is now possible to see a lower part of the horizon that was previously hidden by the ice.

Not only has global warming made hunting considerably more dangerous, it has also halved the hunting season.

The last straw?

The Guardian

The world may have to resort to technology that sucks greenhouse gases from the air to stave off the worst effects of global warming, the UN climate change chief has said before talks on the issue beginning on Monday.

"We are putting ourselves in a scenario where we will have to develop more powerful technologies to capture emissions out of the atmosphere," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change. "We are getting into very risky territory," she said, stressing that time was running out.